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2 Kings 12:12-21 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

12. and to the masons and the stonecutters, to buy timber and stones for hewing, in order to repair the damage of the temple of Yahweh, and for all who went to the temple to repair it.

13. Only, for the temple of Yahweh, there were not any silver basins, snuffers, bowls for drinking wine, trumpets, or any vessel of gold or silver from the money being brought to the temple of Yahweh.

14. For they gave that to all the workers, and they repaired the temple of Yahweh with it.

15. They did not have to settle accounts with the men into whose hands they placed the money to give to the workers, for they were dealing honestly.

16. The money of the guilt offering and the money of the sin offering was not brought into the temple of Yahweh, but were each for the priests.

17. At that time, Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it; then Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.

18. Jehoash king of Judah took all of the holy objects that Jehoshaphat, Joram, and Ahaziah his ancestors, the kings of Judah, had devoted, and all his holy objects and all of the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of Yahweh, and in the palace of the king, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, so that he went up from Jerusalem.

19. Now the remainder of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?

20. Then his servants arose and conspired and killed Joash in the house of the Millo as he was going down toward Silla.

21. Jozabad the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and killed him, so they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David. Then Amaziah his son became king in his place.

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